The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-04-20
GHOST STORIES.
THE LATEST ACCOUNTS OF THE
yIsITATIoNs OF sPooKs.

If They Were as Plentiful in Real Life as
They Are in the Papers There Would be
no Getting Away From Theul-A Conpi-
Iation of Newspaper Yarns About Them
If ghosts we're as plentiful in fact as
they are in newspaper columns white
robed shapes and people who can be seen
through would be almost as numerous as
stray cats. It is astonishing what
quantity of ghost stories are in circula-
ton among the journals of the country.
OF course the Spiritualistic papers being
the special organs of this sort of thing
are the chief repositories of such htera-
ture. The following is compilation of
current ghost stories:
OLD DIR. COLE PLAQUES HIS FAMILY.
The Philadelphia Telegraph tells of the
performances of the ghost of old DR..
Cole, whose family lives near Washing
ton, N. j.
When the doctor was living he was in
the habit of going to the well, which is
at the rear of the house, to quench his
thirst, drinking out of the old oaken
bucket. Since his death, one of the
neighbors, young lady of tender years,
was on her way to church, and thought
it would be nearer to skip over Coles
premises When she arrived within sight
of the well, she saw to her amazement
what looked like the doctor drinking out
of the oaken bucket as of old. The young
lady quickly ran home and told her
parents about the strange scene. 1t is
now impossible to induce her to go cat
after sunset. Not long ago, on a dark,
rainy night, the ghost made one of its
nocturnal visits and went to the study,
when sounds were distinctly heard like
the turning over of the leaves of book.
Not long ago, while Mrs. Cole and
young lady were sleeping away the hours
of midnight, they suddenly awoke and saw
standing before them the deceased doc
tors ghost. He lifted his left hand, and
then turning around, went out of the
room, leaving the door open. Mrs. Cole
her strength to close the door, but her
strong efforts in this attempt proved fruit
less. The door was immovable. Mrs.
Cole and the young lady soon put on their
wearing apparel and went to neighbours
house, where they related the strange
scenes and remained with their friends
the balance of the night On the follow
ing day they came to the conclusion that
it would be policy to vacate the old home
stead forever and emigrate to more
pleasant place. They quickly packed
their goods and are now living at Plain
field, NJ
A GHOST EIGHT FEET HIGH.
A special despatch to the Boston Her
aid says that the little village of Piermont,
N. Y, has been in a state of considerable
excitement for some days over an alleged
ghost. Those who have been scared de-
clare that it is fully eight feet in height,
pale as the driven snow, and as noiseless
as death. 1t makes its appearance be-
tween the hours of eleven at night and
two in the morning. Several attempts
have been made to capture the object
which has frightened the people, but
without success, and the other night one
of Piermont's best and most reliable citi-
zens fired several pistol shots at the
ghost, but the ghost was not injured.
A staid citizen of the village said:
''The people of the outside world may
think we are acting like lot of fools, but
there is something very mysterious in
this whole matter. OF course, don't want
w OCtAONO All SliOoto, but II tlC4C CtCA W dc
such thing in this world as real spook
the object seen in this place is one Why,
the people living along the road from
Haddock's Hall to Sparkill are nearly
ghtsned ont Ct Rsi t Ms VIII ahd std there +
it is some man trying to play joke on
the people he must have an ironclad
hide and the wings of the wind for pistol
shots do not affect him, and no one can
get near him."
SAVED BY HER MOTHERS DREAM.
| The Midland Adoertiser, published at
Wednesday,, England, contains sim
gular narrative. A girl named Louisa
Benn went to London to sail for Aus
tralia The mother, who was FRUSTRATED
with grief, began to have strange visions.
Repeatedly she imagined she saw large
rockjutting out from the ocean, and that
upon this rock there was a large o bird.
Then she would see a ship loaded with
passengers strike against the rock and
sink. She fancied she could hear the
| shouts OF the sailors and the shrieks OF
the women on board, and frequently both
at night and day the strange hallucina,
ton occupied her mind The day before
the ship sailed she was in the kitchen,
when a cry of "Oh, motherp' seemed to
come from the cellar Mrs. Benn was so
| alarmed that she at once telegraphed for
her daughter TO come back The girl was
at the time ON board ship, and for a
moment she hesitated to obey. The
doctor on board the vessel advised her to
stop, but school-master urged her to
obey her mother. She decided 10 leave
the ship and go home, but her luggage
was not given TO her, as it could not be
got, and everything she possessed, except
what she wore, had to be left in the ship
The vessel, the Kapunda, was wrecked
precisely as her mother had dreamed
SPIRIT ARMS THAT MELTED AWAY,
DR.. F. HOFFMAN, of Georgetown, Col,
writing in the Relsgio- P Philosophical Jour-
nal, tells the following: The medium
was Mrs. N. d. Miller, and the seance
was held in my parlor, six persons being
present. Toward the end of the seance
one materialized form walked up to Mrs.
Smith. When Mrs. s. beheld the form
she recognized the same as her deceased
mother; and this fact excited her so much
that with the cry ooh, my mother nv
motherf she went into Mysteries. She
seized the spirits arms with both of her
hands, while she kept on screaming.
"Oh, this is my motherl Do not take her
awayp We all Witnessed The struggle of
the spirit to free itself from the iron grasp
of Mrs. Smith, who is herself powerful
woman. The struggle took place about
eight feet from the cabinet, and fearing
that some injury might be done by it to
the medium we went to the assistance of
the spirit. When we took hold of Mrs.
Smiths hands they were still clinging to
the wrists of the spirit; but the body of
the spirit was gone. While we were try
ing to pry open Mrs. Smiths fingers to
make her release the spirits arms, those
arms ended in nothing beyond the wrists,
and there was no body attached to them
Finally these spirit arms, still encircled
by the grasp of Mrs. SIS fingers, melted
away.
sPooKs AT RED TOP.
| A Washington dispatch to the Balti.
more american says: There seems to be